A way to get wealth. Containing six principal vocations, or callings, in which every good husband or house-wife may lawfully imploy themselves. As, 1. The nature, ordering, curing, breeding, choice, use, and feeding of all sorts of cattel, and fowl, fit for the service o man: as also the riding and dieting of horses, ... 2. The knowledge, use, and laudable practice or all the recreations meet for a gentleman. 3. The office of a house-wife, ... 4. The inrichment of the weald in Kent. 5. The husbanding and inriching of all sorts of barren grounds, ... 6. The making of orchards, planting and grafting, the office of gardening, and the ornaments, with the best husbanding of bees. The first five books gathered by G.M. The last by Master W.L. for the benefit of Great-Brittain.
Gervase Markham (c.1569-1637)
Category
Books
Date
1676
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 3156794
Summary
Bibliographic description
The thirteenth time corrected, and augmented by the author. [12], 146, [14], 92, [12], 80, 73-88, 97-104, 97-188, [4], 19, [7], 126, [10], 102 p. : ill. ; 4to. Loose insert (Country contentments, p.71): scrap paper page marker. Extensive annotation and dense marking on both pastedowns in seventeenth-century hand. Includes list of names and payments on rear pastedown. Provenance: inscribed and crossed through several times rendering names close to illegible. On t.p.: "Mary H. Rudd [?] her booke 1683".; on front pastedown: "Arth: Launder his book anno domin 1697". Binding: seventeenth-century calf; double blind fillet borders; on five raised bands. (Poor condition, part of binding worn and lifting.)
Makers and roles
Gervase Markham (c.1569-1637) Lawson, William, active 1618 Lawson, William, active 1618 Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637 Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637 Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637 Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637 Markham, Gervase, 1568?-1637